A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
Noam ChomskyClinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.
Noam ChomskyI am thinking of actual cases of adolescents, lets say, who think they have five hundred friends, because there are five hundred people on their Facebook account. But these are the kind of friends whose relation to you is that if you say 'I bought a sandwich'; they say 'did it taste good?' You know, that's a kind of interaction, but very different to having a real friend, somebody who you can actually talk to.
Noam ChomskyThe Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.
Noam Chomsky